And your point is? The law is about trying to reduce harm while they are alive, it is about giving them a quality of life and even a quality of death. Would you rather aspirational law making didn’t occur? That we just left things as they are?

That is sapience; all sentient implies is that they act like machines in response to external stimuli and are of carbon based (or other) life.

Here's my question: Are Popplers people?

Personally, I tend to agree with Amanda Stoel on animal personhood. That is, that personhood isn't a binary value, it's a scale. The more and stronger the traits an animal has that constitute personhood (agency, self-determination, sentience, intentionality, volition, etc) has, the more rights that animal should…

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